It sounds like something out of a movie. Children taken from their homes and families, forced to act a certain way and falling victim to abuse. Only for many Native American families the nightmare was ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, ...

South Dakota has a secret that not many people know about. In the early 1900s, there were Catholic-run boarding schools on nearly every reservation. By law, every child had to leave their families and ...

Justin pourier was working maintenance at the Red Cloud Indian School in 1995 when a supervisor asked him to check out a leak in the school's heating system. It was early winter in Pine Ridge, South ...